...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.